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Here’s what we know (and don’t) about that disturbing steel furnace letter on Philly Reddit

Reddit users report getting an odd manifest in their mailboxes that warns of living beings inside your body and calls for a cleansing ritual on April 27, by way of a steel furnace. “Of course, you'll be sedated first.”

Here’s what we know (and don’t) about that disturbing steel furnace letter on Philly Reddit

Copies of a disturbing anonymous letter were reportedly delivered to houses in Brewerytown and Fairmount on Sunday, according to multipleRedditusers.

In the single page document, simply titled “ABBA”, the author begins by issuing a stern warning:

“All the food [you] ate since first grade is alive in your body.”

And then it just goes downhill from there:

Wait, what? (Photo via Reddit user monkeychef)

To summarize: All food we’ve consumed from first grade on up is still alive inside our bodies. The only way to save yourself from this harrowing reality is to become a solid steel statue (?) by mixing your body with melted metal (??) then re-solidifying the metal (???).

In order to make this ritual happen, the mysterious author has convened a meeting on April 27, at noon, to be held at the vacant lot on 27th and Girard Ave. Of course, you’ll be sedated first. Do attend.

After the first Reddit user — seemingly, monkeychef — posted the incredibly odd document, virality quickly ensued, with the three top posts of the letter garnering almost 1,900 upvotes by the time we hit publish on this story.

Could this be a marketing ploy of some kind?

A Brewerytown bar called Otto’s Taproom, conveniently located two blocks from the mysterious empty lot, posted a tongue-in-cheek video hinting at the contents of the letter. Could this be a guerrilla marketing move from Otto’s? Or did the local bar just receive one of the flyers and decided to jump on the bandwagon?